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Into a new year…
It has been an amazing few months over the festive Summer season here at Leila, and our late-plant dahlias made it in thanks to...
Y Maclean
Jan 311 min read
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Great reviews... lovely guests...
October and November have been just lovely, great weather, great guests, lots of time in the garden... does it get better? The iris' were...
Y Maclean
Nov 28, 20241 min read
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Daffodils at the close of winter...
It was windy as August drew to a close, but every where you looked in the Macedon Ranges, there were the sunny faces of Spring's arrival,...
Y Maclean
Sep 12, 20241 min read
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Pretty July...
So much cool weather, and so much of it was sunny. If you had a chance to get out around Victoria, the water ways in the Macedon and...
Y Maclean
Jul 31, 20242 min read
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Love in June...
Winter is here with it's frosty mornings that soften every hue and it's brought with it some of the crispest sunrises and sunsets that...
Y Maclean
Jun 30, 20241 min read
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A Toast to Autumn 2024...
Nature's bursting colour, the many long 'countryside' views, gone is the warm air of summer that clung on well this season before finally...
Y Maclean
May 31, 20241 min read
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April Sun in Malmsbury...
April began beautifully warm before cooling in it's second week, a true Victorian Autumn. Guests have been enjoying Leila more than ever,...
Y Maclean
Apr 30, 20242 min read
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Glad you stayed...
Here at Leila at Malmsbury the petanque court and porch chairs have had a wonderful time available to our Autumn guests. March in...
Y Maclean
Mar 31, 20241 min read
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Summer changes...
Well it got a little warm as expected and yet here, .... the countryside stayed green... unexpected and very welcome! Across this...
Y Maclean
Feb 29, 20241 min read
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January 2024
At Leila we’ve been celebrating the start of 2024, thanking guests for their continuous support of 5 star ratings, something that’s led...
Y Maclean
Jan 31, 20241 min read
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Merry and bright...
It was a wonderful December in Malmsbury, punctuated with friendly community festivity and good cheer, albeit cooler than usual but not...
Y Maclean
Dec 30, 20231 min read
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November highlights…
Spring time at Leila at Malmsbury has been the absolute best time for gathering in with our special loved ones and celebrating having...
Y Maclean
Dec 1, 20231 min read
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October was gorgeous...
There was just so much to enjoy as the weather went from 'rather brisk' to 'less brisk', even, dare I say it,... 'gently warming'! The...
Y Maclean
Nov 9, 20231 min read
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September-reset
Frosts at night are giving way to the warmth of the sun a bit earlier these days, yes winter is passing and no place shows this happening...
Y Maclean
Sep 30, 20232 min read
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August blooms...
That perfume! By mid winter the cold, wet, muddy, grey weather gets interrupted beautifully with shards of poetic long light, romantic...
Y Maclean
Aug 16, 20231 min read
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July at Leila at Malmsbury
If you’ve been feeling like the darker days of Winter have been taking your mojo, it’s time to book your next getaway. A couple of nights...
Y Maclean
Jul 10, 20231 min read
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You’ve made it, come stay a while...
That moment of ‘ahhhhh’, of breathing out when you find what you’ve been looking for, after that bit of a search, often at that point...
Y Maclean
May 17, 20231 min read
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